do you play online chess with a real chess board?

"I yam who I yam" -Popeye.

;)

#35 Isaiah4031
hmmmmmm. Flashbacks and spontaneous poetry. I'm just guessing here, but did you drop a lot of acid back in the 60's? :P Very subversive indeed.
"Try not to let logical analysis get in the way of visceral reactions."
Pfffft When it comes to decision making(such as chessboard purchases) I take visceral reactions, QUANTIFY them, and incorporate them into my logical analysis as simple variables. :)

#39 Dionysus_god
"OTB games aren't any more real than online chess games."
Now this one is interesting and leads me to some philosophical questions. Would you say that an in person friendship is no more real than an online friendship? What about romance? An in person tour of a city is no more real than an online tour of a city? Eating a meal is no more real than experiencing one online? Lol.

To my mind, chess is a cerebral experience. While there's certainly a distinction to be made between online and "real life" chess, in the end it's the same game.

*shrug*

Is this real? This post?

This thread?

This website?

I really don't know. It might be real, or it might be just one's and zeros represented by fluctuating electric fields flying through the ether. Where's my red pill?

Oh dear... don't get metaphysical on me.

Of course this is real!

The delusion of the world as an illusion....I was once a Buddhist, but that was adolescence.

____ I was once crawling about like some (past)el-colored creature from a Disney-esque Saturday cartoon but I've since come out of my cocoon. #42!! That is J. Robinson's # and it should not be sullied by your insolent speculations (especially when they comment on the Emperor's new clothes... really?!).
___ Regarding the aforementioned speculations about acid trips & other 'substances': IS THAT ALL YOU TOOK from what I thought to be an incisive and inspired metaphor for (4 whore chore boor Boer) the unbridled thrust for conquering nature with science when what we need is just the slightest grip on morality & civility. The sad fact is that I was to young to 'tune out & turn on' my ravings are strickly the product of clean living and good education! (Those of you who have 'good' children beware: look how I turned out...)

If I were the one to hit the lottery (#3 Uncrowned) then I would hope that you, I, Dionysus, and several others merry fellows I've encountered here might all be flown to the land of Ned Ludd so we could put to death all stereotypes concerning coniving, cowering, castrated, carpe diemless, Counts of chess combat! Or we could meet someplace warm & beautiful like Peru... (those naked ladies might be more comfortable moving our pawns around)